Improvement in oultivatobs



@eine 'tatsatrnt ffice.

IILIPROVBMEINT IN CUL'IIVAVTORSl dille Schwule einen in in these citcts @nicht mit milling ont nf tige time.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM FRANTZ, of Piqua, in the county of Miami, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cnltivators; and I do hereby declare that tho following is a. full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, in which the eultivator is 'shown in perspeetive.

This invention consists infso arranging the cultivator that it may be'used for furrowingout, for covering t' the corn, and cultivating the growing corn, by the following devices:

A is the beam, to which the draught is attached; B, the handles fastened thereto. The cross-timber C is framed to the beam, and'conneeted, by braces, with the parallel piece C. The Ystandards D D are bolted to the cross-pieces C and C. Two sets of holes are arranged in the cross-pieces, so-that the standards, which carry the shovels E and E', may be set further apart or nearer to oneanother, as muy be required. A rake, F, attached to a beam, F1', is-hinged to the bottom of the beam A. F2 is a chain or cord for raising the rake to release any qld cornstalks or other trash that may become entangled irl-the teeth of the rake. When the cha-in is loosened, after raising the rake', the latter is pressed down by ofspring, F3, which also permits the rake to yield to an obstacle which might otherwise break it. G G are braces, supporting the strain on the ploughs and standards. A

When it is desired to furrow ont thcground, the standards D D are set on the outer end of the cross-pieces C C', at the proper distance apart, and the rake is removed. To cover corn, thc standards and ploughs are attached, by means ofthe inner series of holes, so that the earth may be thrown outwards by the shovel-ploughs te'cover the grain, The nnk'e is attached to break up the clods and pulver-izo the earth. When itis desired to cultivate the growing crop, the standards should be arranged as in covering, except that o ne standard should b e bolted in front of, and the other behind, the cross-pieces C C', so that the ploughs may not be in the same line. This is donc for the'pnrpose of throwing o`\nnytl1ing which, being caught by the shovels, if in line, and being dragged along, would injure the .stalks of the growing corn. In cultivating, I take off the rake.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to lsecure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the standards D D and shovel-plouglis E E', adjustably attached to cross-beams C', l

and the adjustablerake F, arranged to operate substantially as setforth.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my naine to this specifieatioii'in the prescncc'oftwo subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM FRANTZ.

Witnesses:

N. F. Winnen, Hnnnr-VoN Turn. 

